Copying files from my project in Maven - maven

Question

Is it possible to copy folders from my project to a certain location during some Maven phase? Does anybody know how?

Answer 1

The Maven way of doing this would be using the copy-resources goal in maven-resources-plugin
From http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-resources-plugin/examples/copy-resources.html
<project>
...
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-resources-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.7</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>copy-resources</id>
<!-- here the phase you need -->
<phase>validate</phase>
<goals>
<goal>copy-resources</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<outputDirectory>${basedir}/target/extra-resources</outputDirectory>
<resources>
<resource>
<directory>src/non-packaged-resources</directory>
<filtering>true</filtering>
</resource>
</resources>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
...
</build>
...
</project>

Answer 2

Take a look at the maven-antrun plugin. You can copy a file in any maven phase like this:
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.4</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>copy</id>
<phase>compile</phase>
<configuration>
<tasks>
<copy file="myFileSource" tofile="MyFileDest"/>
</tasks>
</configuration>
<goals>
<goal>run</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>

Answer 3

A solution similar to #mort's one with maven-antrun-plugin 1.8:
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.8</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>copy</id>
<phase>compile</phase>
<configuration>
<target>
<copy file="sourceFile" tofile="targetFile"/>
</target>
</configuration>
<goals>
<goal>run</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
Note that <tasks> node is deprecated in favor of <target> node as of maven-antrun-plugin 1.5.